I just had fiber installed yesterday and got a 3Gbit plan.

The modem provided by the ISP has 1x 10GbE port and 4x gigabit ports.

I got a 10GbE NIC for my Synology NAS, which is installed right beside my modem.

However my PC is sitting at the opposite end of a 30m+ Cat5 run. The silver lining is there’s a pair of them.

Can I bond them somehow to make them a single 5GbE port?I haven’t bought a switch or router yet.

Considering the Mikrotik crs317-1g-16s+: https://www.ispsupplies.ca/MikroTik-RouterBOARD-CRS317-1G-16SRM

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  • Halada@alien.topOPBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Honestly even 1GbE would have been a nice upgrade after being on 400/50 cable for more than a decade.

    But the ISP was like you can have 3GbE for $10 more… and got seduced.

    My soon to be 40 year old ass doesn’t want a Mustang or a sports car, but I do want a fully functional Darth Vader costume and lightning speeeeeed Internet please.

    I could serve 20x 4K remuxes to my Plex users and still not come close to saturate a 3Gbit link, that’s just cray cray.

    I think I will settle on a 2.5Gbe NIC in the PC for now and just run a Cat6 cable eventually. Some drywall will have to come off but its not a terrible job.

    Is the Mikrotik crs317-1g-16s+ a good choice?

    • MrMotofy@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Bro…you don’t have to remove drywall. I don’t understand why people get so insistent on removing drywall. Get a number of Pros in there and I bet none of them will say we have to tear all the drywall off. It’s probably not your job don’t limit their abilities on your own lack of knowledge and skills.

      Mikrotik tends to have very good products